A crystal clear 7-minute video of the Nexus 5 (I think we can accept that's going to be the name at this point) was just leaked on the web. It's an older build than the one leaked by TuttoAndroid yesterday, but look - it's the Nexus 5 hardware in the clearest shots we've seen yet! smartphones.sfr.fr appears all over it, so the full credit for this leak goes out to them.

In the video, shot on October 9th if we are to believe the lockscreen, we're obviously looking at a prototype, considering there's no Nexus branding on the back, but one that offers the highest amount of detail to date. It's worth taking a peek at it just to see a close-up of those sexy dual bottom-firing speakers.

As for the build, it's missing some elements we saw recently, like notification bar transparency in the launcher, the camera shortcut on the lockscreen, the new dialer, app drawer, Search app icons, Google Photos (as opposed to Google+ Photos), etc. The build even says KeyLimePie, just like it did in numerous previous leaks, but remember that Google only told its employees the new KitKat name in the beginning of September. Rest assured that it'll change by release time.

Mirror:

00:00 - Hardware overview.

00:53 - The lockscreen is turned on - notice the October 9th date.

01:00 - The homescreen.

01:05 - The app drawer - notice Messaging went missing, just like we suspected it might. There's also something called GEL Stub, which is undoubtedly related to Google Experience.

01:13 - Settings.

01:20 - About screen showing Nexus 5 and KeyLimePie.

01:44 - Storage (this device has 16GB, 12 of which is available for use).

Comments

krisyadao

WANT

berkan

leaks becoming lake.

RitishOemraw

No wonder press invites haven't been send out yet for the announcement...there is nothing left to announce except a release date. Would be stupid to announce a date for an event where they announce the release date :P

berkan

Normally they send invites 1 week before the occasion(i guess),invites would have been leaked for sure, i'm not expecting anything in 14 or 15 oct.

Gnex

They'll probably start off the announcement with "That's all, folks."

jimv1983

Except that nothing has really been confirmed either way. Most of what we know so far are leaks and rumors from unverifiable sources. The video showed here doesn't match some of the other leaked screenshots some of which have been said to be screens from custom ROMs or totally faked. There are even rumors saying the 32GB version will have a 3,000mAh battery and although that would be AWESOME there is no reason to believe it is true.

sssss

3000 mAh is true

FCC proved it

The Nexus 5 was taken apart by FCC, America's communications and
electronics regulatory commission, with both its battery variants. The
standard one, marked BL-T9, offers 2,200 mAh of capacity. The one marked
BL-T7 offers 3,000 mAh. Made by LG Chem

The FCC documents for the Nexus 5 (LG-D820) only mention a 2,300mAh battery and never a 3,000mAh battery.

The picture you show doesn't prove anything. It just shows that LG Chem makes a 3,000mAh battery. The more likely explanation is that the battery from the picture is from the LG G2 which DOES have a 3,000mAh battery.

TY

Duh, this is G2's battery. The orientation ribbon cable doesn't even fit Nexus 5's. The whole 3000mAh thing was started by an "anonymous tipster" @ phonearena. No evidence at all.

I read that they were just removed from the drawer, but you can still access them via long-pressing on the homescreen.

jimv1983

It would suck if they are gone from the app drawer. I liked having the grid layout of widgets with actual previews. The old style of long pressing the home screen only got you a long list with the app icon and name. No previews.

FritoDorito

There's been no indication of exactly what the widget previews would look like, so it's possible it could look better than it did last time. If they did a list style layout for selecting a widget this time as well, my guess would be that it would look like the list for selecting a lockscreen widget on 4.3. Although there's no reason they couldn't maintain a grid layout.

jimv1983

I'd still prefer it in the app drawer but if they do keep the layout like you suggest I wouldn't really care that much.

Who cares what he took the video with? It could have been a potato for all we care.

AkhilSood

Thats what he said, iphone -potato, they all the same year by year!

Michael Sheils

Don't knock Potatoes, if GlaDOS can survive inside a potato then they are to be feared and respected.

TheRunner024

I really hope this has a good camera.

Guest

lol

AkhilSood

...& battery!

Frettfreak

I am sure the hardware will be great. The question mark for me is if they fixed the horrible aosp camera app. It really needs a huge ui and behind the scenes make over. Processing just doesn't compete with the oem cameras right now

A few days apparently, the lockscreen shows 9th of October.
The build is very old, though.

Gustavo Chamorro

Date can be changed in settings, so easy. But the Youtube app doesn´t lie, you can install an old APK of the app but, the video shows the updated applications on Google Play and I didn't see any update incoming.

One interesting thing I noted (yes, i realize this is prerelease hardware and a longshot for Google design direction) is that the charging port sitting on the seam has been a recent trend for LG phones with removable back covers. Instead of a tab like the galaxy series, the back cover is removed by pulling from the charging port.

More like he's connected to a wifi that sits in the other end of the house. Look how low the signal is.

Stacey Liu

What? Is there a certain speed associated with that number? Can you see two unidentified phones and tell: "Oh this one is definitely 2.3 GHz. The other one must be 1.7!"

notpoliticalyet

No, however looking at the touchscreen and how fast things should load you can see it is not lightning fast. Nexus 7 2013 or (2) is lightning fast to my Nexus GSM phone which is 2 year old technology. The video doesn't look much faster than the Nexus phone from 2 years ago. Explanation, you got it. Bamo!

baconslayer09

This must have been a very old build. It doesn't even have the updated YouTube app.

anon

he disclosed his location on google earth :-)

Justin Foster

Rofl exactly what I was thinking and they can probably track who used those Google Apps from a nexus 5 on that day or that time.

I have a feeling that last week was the end of the NDA for "pre-release leaks" lol.

Chidozie Emelue

Hhahahah this is more Lake than Leak at this point

Altintop

Why does it say KeyLimePie?

baconslayer09

Because Android 4.4 was originally called Key Lime Pie until Google decided to do some business with Nestle to rename it to Kit Kat.

anon

if you notice it doesn't have a nexus branding too, so it must be an old prototype device running an older build.

Nomaan

Why are you replying to yourself?

alexguitar

Part of me wants it but another part of me still really enjoys my HTC One running cyanogenmod... So conflicted

Frettfreak

Same but not cm. Prefer sense 5. But I am on jump and my wife has an upgrade now. So she will be getting my one and I am gonna get this. Will be my first nexus since the nexus s on sprint... Which kinda sucked.

alexguitar

I know what you mean. Sense 5 is so optimized for the one I had a hard time switching but in the end I'm a diehard CM guy. Yeah the Nexus s was a real let down especially after the Nexus one.

This is going to be Google's answer to all of us who want a pure Google experience. They will just offer the launcher on Play so everyone can have the Google Experience, whether you have a Nexus or not.

jimv1983

Manufacturer customization like TouchWiz, Sense, etc are much more than just a different launcher. Just replacing the launcher wouldn't give a pure Google experience. The notification pull down is a great example. It isn't changed by adding a different launcher.

abqnm

Oh trust me I know. I haven't run a stock launcher since I got my Motorola Droid in '09. It just seems to fit with Google's new Experience Devices. I see this as Google's attempt at aligning devices as much as they can, even if they can't control them directly, it gives people an option to bring a little more Google back.

stevestgermain

Yeah interesting idea. An app like this for Google could also be viewed as a competitor to Facebook Home and might eventually prove useful after Samsung inevitably forks Android.

Yes, it is their software and it works how they designed it. They allowed it to be open and let people do whatever they want with it. It is both a great strength and a great weakness of the OS. What I'd like to see is Google put more restrictions on OEMs. Not by making the source closed but instead changing the licencing agreements that the OEMs have to agree to if they want to put Android on their devices.

jimv1983

It's kind of odd to see the Android launcher in the app drawer. What would opening it even do? Just take you to the home screen?

Spetto

Hmm, it'd probably open a "Settings" window or something like that, so that you could customize some of the stuff.. Just a guess

pfmiller

It's a dev build. There's not going to be a GEL Stub in the final release.

jaduncan

I wouldn't be so sure, it fits exactly with the Google Keyboard icon when you install that. It works well when the app is installed from the Play Store (hint hint).

pfmiller

Well I am so certain. It says right in the name it's a stub, i.e. a temporary stand in for something else. It's almost certainly just there for testing.

jaduncan

It might well be a stub for the settings.

deV14nt

Pretty much. But if you opened it from a third-party launcher it would actually do something.

Mayoo

Oh yeah I'm gellin' !

Zach Mauch

That thing is blazing fast. Wow, programs opening in a snap.

AkhilSood

And its the same on N4? Improvement being?

Frettfreak

For that matter it's the same on my HTC one

AkhilSood

And the point is, its about multi tasking than about hpw apps open up, arent we past that since 4.0 version came out?

Nomaan edited his comment. He'd asked why open GEL app while already running GEL and gave an example of nova launcher, so I replied with the above.

zevral

dude... dont be a wise-ass. Its possible that opening the GEL Stub may show some settings etc.
Its the same thing with every 3rd party launcher. If you click the App Symbol it takes you to the settings. He is well aware that the actual launcher is running...

AkhilSood

Atleast they got rid of the glass back. Looks nice and sober.

Hola

KeyLimePie? Seem legit.

Mama

I think this one is fake. Look at 0:59. Why did he cut that part and skip it?

Why would they bother to put a fake 4.4 rom on an unreleased Nexus?
Almost everyone though KLP is 4.4, including Googlers, until the announcement of Kitkat. So KLP isn't a reason to not believe this video.

I'm definitely ditching my HTC One for this. I miss the full Nexus experience dearly..

Vikramaditya Rai

Google would be so unhappy

Jachym Kokesh Lukes

I have one worry about N5 - the lens sticks out quite a lot. I guess it will get scratched rather quickly, despite the fact that t will be scratch proof glass Just sayin.

Chidozie Emelue

im just hoping that its because Google has done some serious work with the Camera.. N7(2013) camera looks amazing even though its just a decent camera..

robogo

To me the phone looks like a testing mule, not the final product. I believe the phone, when it comes out, will be put together with more scrutiny.

Guest

I really didnt like seeing that at all.

sorry for making you eat an apple at a time like this but my ipod touch 5's lens stick out too and i've been using it without a case for almost a year, dropped it twice on its back and it and its camera's still able to take pictures of my food

Just because it was shot on the 9th doesn't mean it's not an old build.

Dan Carter

I think he just means old software. Old as in, a month or two =)

Gabernasher

3 days old, so old.

jclgan

I know this is just the prototype model, but I can't help but find the N5's design to be uninspiring and bland. Granted, LG/Google probably went with the N7 2013 design aesthetic to keep build costs down. While the N4 might've been a fragile thing, I thought the glass back looked great. So far, I think the HTC one still nails it for being the best-designed Android phone to-date. The Nokia's look great too but I'm not switching to WP any time soon.

Chidozie Emelue

most people just get a case though.. so the screen is all that matters to me.. the One doesn't look good to me at all..

FritoDorito

"most people just get a case..."

Most bullshit excuse ever. I think the build quality for the Nexus 5 looks fantastic. It doesn't look like it's going to feel cheap or shoddily put together. And the design and build of the One was incredible: one of the best in a smartphone ever.

Chidozie Emelue

thanks for your professional opinion. but id like to keep my ability to have my own. I think the HTC ONE IS UGLY AS SHIT... But the beauty of that statement is that its MY opinion so dont come and try to refute MY OPINION...

FritoDorito

When did I say you couldn't have your own opinion? I simply gave my opinion, which, like you, I am fully entitled to. I simply responded to your opinion with a differing opinion of my own that was relevant to the conversation. I have as much of a right to state my opinion as you. You did, however, state a baseless fact with no sort of citation or accuracy by saying "most people just get a case," which I responded to.

Grimmjow

Its gonna be cheap so.....dont complain

jclgan

I did say that build materials were likely one of the first things to be compromised in order to keep the outstanding Nexus price tag. That being said, I'm really digging the metallic bumper colour(s) of Spigen's Neo Hybrid cases so that'll likely be a boon for the N5's aesthetics.

One thing I can concede to is with the beveled back and soft-touch finish, it'll probably be super comfortable to hold.

Chidozie Emelue

thats exactly what im talking about. The golden spigen case looks amazing. ill be buying as soon as i press buy on the play store.

robogo

Will it? The N4 had mid-high range specs which allowed for the lower price. This, in all likelihood, will have a S800 with 2 gigs of RAM.

I'm still not sold on the price. I guess I'll have to wait and see, like the rest of us.

Grimmjow

What's the price for the new Kindle fire with S800 and 2 gig RAM?

robogo

Seriously?

Chris

The N4 was by no means mid-high range specs, those were the best specs on the market at the time with the exception of the Droid DNA which had a 1080p screen. I doubt it'll cost that much more then the N4.

Colin Kaminski

I am not a fan of the lack of widgets in the drawer or the bubbles that show what page you are on. I prefer the old line

better yet use a custom launcher... sometimes the best solutions are the easiest -_-

Ryan Yakus

or continue to use a third party launcher

abqnm

I am glad to have the extra row of icons instead of the tabs for apps/widgets. I hated going into the launcher to load a widget on the desktop. The old press and hold on the homescreen was much easier to use.

Colin Kaminski

But there are still 5 rows of apps. They didn't add another row despite not having the tabs.

Colin Kaminski

My bad I meant columns, they took away a column so the amount of apps on a page Is actually one less.

abqnm

They took away a column when compared to the N4, but that was the only device with 5 columns anyway. It was due to the slightly wider aspect ratio of the N4 LCD panel.

Ugalde97

No round Google icon?

Pascal

"sexy dual bottom-firing speakers" One is mic, isn't it?

niklas_a

The mic is much smaller. The mic on the S3 for example is just a small dot. So this is probably the speakers.

Pascal

But LG is doing this on other phones too. I have O2X, it has same thing at bottom and one is mic and one is speaker.

Mahen

iPhone has 2 grills too but it's just 2 mics inside one grill.

Aaron Jaeger

The LG G2 has dual grills, but an LG rep in a video I saw said one grill was for the microphone. I think the dual grills are either a ploy to make it seem like there are stereo speakers, or simply for symmetry.

Hans Gruber

I think google are making a mistake forcing everybody into hangouts to use SMS not to mention the fact it would confuse people, as it stands messaging...people know what it's for, for SMS, with everything in one app it's going to over complicate things for people especially when they get to "didnt you get my message?" no because you sent a hangouts message instead of sms.
And before people comment that a nexus is more likely to be bought by people who know what they're doing, that's not SO much the case these days and it could mean google alienates a few people.

Grimmjow

They are apparently influenced by the vocal minority who want Applesque features no matter what.

Stacey Liu

I don't see iPhone users complaining. By default every Android user has a Google account, so they also have a Hangouts profile. I don't see the problem. The app can probably autodetect if the recipient has the app. Every Android phone ships with Hangouts/Talk.

Darkbotic

The thing is that the iPhone app is called "iMessage".
Android app is called "Hangouts". It doesn't include the word "Message".
You and me will not get confused, but some new Android users will.

Stacey Liu

The icon is a chat bubble. I really hope people aren't that daft.

Al McDowall

For what it's worth, that's not exactly true. Many phones released in China run Android but do not have the option to add a Google account and do not ship with all the Google apps (including the omission of the Play Store). Even the HTC One suffers from this if it is bought from a Chinese mobile company. So although the Nexus range may not be sold in this way, if it's a deep change to the OS/Apps it could have an effect further down the line. That said, third party SMS solutions will probably still work, so....

Stacey Liu

So those users will receive messages sent by Hangouts as normal SMS messages on their default SMS clients. This isn't supposed to close the sphere of communication.

Gabernasher

Seeing as the profit margins will be tiny on this phone (hopefully) it doesn't matter if they alienate a few. The morons who can't figure it out can go pay $600 for a phone, or get it subsidized at $200 to have their messaging be "messaging" Also, I'm sure it's not that hard to figure out.
if they don't know how to check notifications, they really need to get an iOS device.

spydie

I'm not seeing anything new, really, It lacks a lot of features yet that existing phones have. What's the big deal about going with a stock nexus and missing the "cool" features of phones that are skinned? Tried it twice... they really lack a lot of the fun. Note 3 is king of the hill.

zrh

I kinda agree, what am I supposed to get excited about? It basically looks the same as before

Gabernasher

I agree, bloat is good, all hail bloat that eats my storage.

Jadephyre

Moaning about missing "Killer features" on a Nexus phone just shows that you frankly have no idea what a Nexus is all about.
It is still primarily a developer platform, something you develop new features on for other phones.
I for one am happy to have ditched skinned UI's ever since I sold my HTC Desire, as it makes the devices slow and ungainly to use.
The Note 3 needs all the power it has just to stay usable due to the shitty software addons Samsung squeezed into the operating system.

Random!

Man, that huge ring around the camera is hideous.

Peacen1k

Man you're so sensitive. Get yourself a fruity appliance as soon as possible!

Gabernasher

It's not attractive.

Marsg

What's that thing in bottom left hand corner of the device

Slawootsky

Looks like the CRT screen off effect has been also modified a little.

herbivoor

Goddammit, why did they turn the micro usb port upside down, just like in the N7? That's really the only thing I don't like about the N7. I'm sad now.

Alexei Watson

Are you going to be okay?

herbivoor

I don't know. I'm scared.

me

this device has 16GB, 12 of which is available for use

no way

in hell

why should a device in 2013 be a compromise in storage.
12gb= nothing

Hans Gruber

i've been managing with a 16GB galaxy nexus for 2 years and i still have over 3GB free, even more if i delete music i never listen to.

bondx99

YOU!

Chidozie Emelue

yeah the memory hype is the dumbest thing honestly.. 16GB is plenty.. I really dont know what people are doing on their phones to need 64GB unless they dont realize its 2013 and all that LTE and data they beg for allows for this magical thing called "streaming"

Brian Daniels

16GB is the low end storage option this time. There will also be a 32GB version. Better than the Nexus 4 with 8GB and 16GB as the only options.

Hans Gruber

Only rumours so far without any shred of evidence unlike other leaks with have stuff backing them up :/

What are you complaining about? I have an S4 with 9 (nine) GB of storage available. I do a nandroid backup and boom, my internal storage space is full LOL

Gabernasher

Are you saying all devices in 2013 should have at least 8 terabytes of storage? It's simple, money.

me

what about a sd card.

when a simple game cost us more than 1gb of space.
right now i am downloading a wikipedia offline app its 3.6 gb. no 4 gb.

Gabernasher

USB OTG?

me

omfg so portable

Gabernasher

This is the Nexus 5 we're talking about, which is supposed to have OTG unlike the 4.

Matt

Would any of you know if Android Kitkat 4.4 will have a stock battery percentage option?

Darkbotic

Yes. In Settings > About phone > Status

Matt

But you can see it in the notification bar...

Darkbotic

Oh, you mean like in the battery icon. I don't think so.
But, try using the BatteryLife app by CurveFish.
It's a nice widget I use for that purpose.

Christopher Ching

The hardware design still looks pretty staid compared to the Nexus 4. Not a fan of the almost Fisher-Price-like increase in icon sizes and the return to a 5 x 4 grid in the app drawer, although I suppose the latter was necessary due to the return to true 16:9 resolution.

Bojan Tomic

It's actually 6x4 grid in the app drawer.

Christopher Ching

Yes, my mistake. It's 5 x 4 in the other leak though, and I suppose it remains to be seen which is the final version.

Bojan Tomic

It does make sense to go 6x4, since there'd be a lot of space between the icons if they really removed widgets from the app drawer.

Raffy Carabello

I'm all ok with less icons in a single screen. Makes looking for something specific much easier.

Chris Caldwell

"I think we can accept thats going to be the name at this point" - it will only be the name if they round up 4.95 to 5", which is completely possible. That doesnt mean Google will be as stupid as most of its users and release a nexus 6 in 2014, and "another" nexus 7 in 2015. Stop being dumb.

MelchiahX

Hey moron! The number after each nexus name DOES NOT REPRESENT THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER IN WHICH IT'D RELEASED.... IT'S BASED ON THE SCREEN SIZE. I'm so sick and tired of ppl not figuring this out on there own Sheesh. It's so fuckin simple. Nexus 4 = 4.7", Nexus 7 = 7", Nexus 10 = 10.1", and Nexus 5....OH GUESS WHAT..... 4.95" WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH A 5" SCREEN. Just like the galaxy s4 which carries a screen of 4.99". No one calls it a 4.99" screen... they just say 5". Google knows what they're doing you nimrod. Fuck lol

Jadephyre

Stop screaming.

Gabernasher

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

pfmiller

You left out the Nexus 1. Man, I can't believe I used to think that tiny 1" screen was so big.

MelchiahX

Back then Google didn't have the nexus brand name scheme all setup hence names like nexus s and galaxy nexus. Since the launch of the nexus 7 they've been sticking to naming their devices after screen sizes. I still can't believe you guys are having difficulty comprehending this. its common sense.

Chris Caldwell

WOW, maybe you should actually read a post before you lose your shit over it. read again, whos the moron now?

Chris Caldwell

step 1: read the post (for the first time it seems)
step 2: realize you called me a moron, then agreed with me
step 3: stop posting

Russ

By that logic the Nexus 4 should have been the Nexus 5 then, since 4.7" is closer to 5" than 4"

That system might not supply to phones

Andrew

I don' care if the next nexus is called Nexus 5 or Nexus 4 2013 but I have a small doubt nagging me. why does it have a 4.95in screen rather than having a 5in screen. If it is going to be named the Nexus 5 why couldn't they have a 5in screen unless it's going to be called the Nexus 4. Forgive me if I have made any mistakes in my English>

Kuba

The guy literally showed all the apps no one cares about...

nick

keylimepie? video seems a little old to take everything as law. this could be an outdated prototype someone was showing off and leaked the video. could be a nice rumor generator but i would take everything with a grain of salt...

No Messaging app, and a Hangouts icon right in the dock in its place. Says it all.

Guillermo Perazzo

old youtube app in the video? weird...

antonior93

What are those "little dots" in the bottom left of the device, at 0.49??

Guest

Those are called iOS 1 (circa 2007) homescreen page indicators.

Yes.

Gabernasher

No.

Below the screen. There's a 6x2 grid of dots below the glass in the bottom left corner of the face of the phone. They do not represent the homescreen as they are not on the LED but under the glass below the LCD.

Brian Menius

Serial of sorts to ID the owner of the prototype.

Gabernasher

Makes sense, you'd think the owner would have the common sense to put masking tape over it then. Though I suppose it's not quite "common sense" as most don't know about it.

flosserelli

Dat camera.

dhruva

they changed the people app to contacts..maybe google contacts coming to play store?

Just talked to a representative at Best Buy. Who seemed to have no idea what a Nexus 5 was, looked it up in their database and he said that they would have it unlocked for $498 with shipment starting on the 21 of October.

Gnex

500 bucks? Good thing Best Buy is known for having the worst prices lol. Thanks for the news.

Sir_Brizz

That could be a carrier version.

Gnex

A carrier version? You mean Sprint (the only non-GSM one)?

miri

I think the Nexus devices are only subsidized in that way through Google Play. If you buy them off contract through a carrier then you can expect to pay what you would for any other phone.

Sir_Brizz

Sure. Or T-Mobile if they partner with them again. The N4 from the Play Store worked on T-Mobile, but you could also buy it in store subsidized for $199 or non-subsidized for $499 or something.

Simon Belmont

$500, eh? Ouch.

I hope that's a carrier version and not the unlocked one that I'm getting. I was thinking it'd top out at $400 ($399), max.

randy

Where is linux kernel 3.10

I was hoping for it for too long

FritoDorito

Considering how much this build was missing altogether, I think it's a safe bet this is a very old build. It's possible it may still change.

Ben

It's an old Video.. with an OLD OS.. The Android KitKat will be on the new handset.

Dwalt

Curiously missing "nexus" logo on back of phone. looking more and more like an older test version of phone mid development.

ithehappy

And there was the iconic dumb thing of Nexus, yeah, the on screen buttons. Let's buy a 42" TV and waste the actual screen resolution by making its hardware switches on the screen, I can't believe who's freaking idea was this at the first place! Where's the section of utter dumbness for Nobel Prize?

Gabernasher

I guess instead we should make the phone larger and have actual buttons that can't ever go away? Also, they can't evolve with the OS.
I love on screen buttons as I love the option to add another to power off the screen and to make them smaller or go away entirely and use PIE.

ScottColbert

It's waiting for you to pick up.

Raffy Carabello

If you hate it that much, you know you can just replace it, right? Which is the point of a vanilla Android anyways. Want no buttons? Get rid of it.

ithehappy

Sorry.

Patrick Calderaz

Looks like this video is of an older Kitkat, as the most recent pictures that have leaked out over the last 24 hours, show a different coloration for the icons as well as a Round icon for the new "Google settings" app. The one in this video is still square.

The Software is likely quite old compared to the leaks from TuttoAndroid. No wonder it's taking such a long time to launch..... Google is tweaking the OS at breakneck speed.... Likely the software has been finalised now and is probably going through final revisions..... Oct 15 is extremely likely.

Moosa Mahsoom

Last year, the nexus 4 was launched soon after a similar video was leaked....

I am beginning to think that Google is the one release these leaks...

mountainloafers

This phone has leaked so much at this point that I am surprised Google hasn't shipped a free one to all of the customers that purchased a Nexus 4. Half way through the video I really wanted to chop the finger off of the person taking the video! He/she was moving slower than Christmas for heavens sake. Would it kill one of these people leaking it to, I don't know, SAY SOMETHING, about the dang phone already? How do the speakers sound? Is it stereo in portrait and or landscape? How is the camera and the quality of the photos? How smooth is the UI? Does it have an it blaster, USB OTG or anything new and interesting? Instead we get "Captain slow finger" fumbling about, showing us what is obviously and unfinished prototype with an incomplete version of 4.4. Throw us a dang bone! You took a freeking seven minute video of your finger taking it's own sweet time showing us Google Earth and how much storage you apps take up!

OK Google - just anounce this thing already and put us out of our mystery (sic).

Gabernasher

Stop looking at all these leaks if you're going to cry about em.

Luis Augusto Fretes Cuevas

It's always funny how those software buttons eat a big part of the screen for no good reason.

This video looks fairly similar to their usual “Hands on” videos (see http://youtu.be/HIdiuFIGBDo ) but without any sound, and, like many people pointed out already, what looks like an older build than the TuttiAndroid leak, so this was probably an internal video.

andrew__des_moines

I am disappointed to see an all glass front. One of HTC's best design features, accented most notable with the One, is terminating the front glass near the top and bottom of the screen. This breaks up the bland, monolithic front view and allows for a more aesthetically pleasing rounded corner profile while adding other design accents. Notably, this approach that would have saved Samsung a lot of litigation headaches as well.

sup

No.

Eddy Edd

I really like HTC One but the bezel the top and bottom area are horrendous to be very honest.

Ben Baranovsky

Are they using bone conduction for the phone speaker? (The part you put to your ear) I don't see anything on the phone and I remember seeing a video from CES two years ago from a Chinese company who really had it down.

FritoDorito

I may be wrong, but it looks to me like that circle that's centered above the screen is actually a speaker, not a sensor that a lot of people guessed,

Gabernasher

It definitely looks like a speaker, especially since the glass is cut out.

kewl

in the meanwhile, google is enjoying the free publicity and saving on ads :-)

PHOENIX

You don't make a device with a camera module that draws that much attention to itself unless it's "insanely great", right? The design kinda reminds me of the Ubuntu Edge.

ChristianMcC

Interesting that no one mentioned print integration at 1:36...

8Charlie

Looks nice, but I'm missing some sex appeal.

PHOENIX

Scarlett Johansson wallpaper. BOOM!

Godspoken

Take me now.

Athishay

If they have a 64gb version, I'm selling my htc one.

Eddy Edd

Nexus 5 bezel area on the right/left seems same as about Nexus 4 shouldn't it be slimmer like G2?

MrE

Nothing special, just catching up to the Galaxy S4, too little too late as usual with Google

I don't know you guys, but I've been waiting for something like this, and my hunch was just confirmed, this phone is UGLY like hell and I'm extremely dissapointed. I'm a Nexus user since always, I left Apple to get the Nexus One, then the S, then the Galaxy Nexus and finally the gorgeous Nexus 4... its design in beyond the human reason and I think no one will create that texturized back Nexus 4 have. But this one, I repeat, is ugly like hell. I don't like it at all, it just look extremely common. So for the first time, I switched to an HTC One Developer Edition. I'm really sad about the Nexus 5, really :(

Peacen1k

Seems to be a matter of taste. I was never all that excited about the looks of HTC One, and judging from the state of HTC I'm in the majority.

Nexus 5 looks about right, especially when it's put into a TPU case. And thank Google/LG there's no glass on the back of this one.

And I respect you opinion. I'm just excited about KitKat, not about the Nexus 5, you may like its design, but its not a one of a kind, something different from the crowd. I'm telling you, for me it looks just common... which makes me very sad, I love the whole Nexus world, until now.

Peacen1k

I guess we're just approaching this from different angles. I just want a phone that works and gets regular software updates without all the manufacturer/provider bloat, and looks as non-offensive as possible.

To me the days of 'exciting and different' as applied to external hardware appearance of a personal telephone are long gone.

In that matter we think equally, in fact I erased everything in my HTC and installed the Google Edition because it has the best accesibility in the world, speed, stability... and it's the one I've been using since the birth of Nexus One. Maybe I'm just seeing the physical part from a designer point of view, and of course my personal angle. I just love design in general (I'm one hehehe), and I have to like every part of a gadget and this one its ugly, it just don't look (physically) like a next gen thing. But this is just my modest opinion.

Gabernasher

Odd you'd go from the Nexus 4 to an HTC One. From stock Android to hard keys.

tendoboy1984

It looks like a Samsung Galaxy. Who's copying who this time? :)

Bojan Tomic

It looks like a Nexus. Google Nexus.

matteventu

Yes, like the Galaxy NEXUS.

Ahronzombi

this video lacks the right software code name and icons. Its a good phone modded to look like a Nexus 5 but I doubt its real.

kpjimmy

Looks like a matte version of the N4. Right now, not loving it. Kinda like the step from Nexus One to the Nexus S. Loved the GNex, but never got a chance to jump back in until the N4 and glad I did. The only thing I didn't really like was the 16 gb size, but I managed to jump on an app diet lol.

Do I like this iteration? Sure I love the Nexus line all around, but to jump from a N4 to this? I have to say not likely thus far.

This isn't a iPhone, It's a Nexus... You don't have to line up out side the stores, to get something not much better than what you already have... Google doesn't want you to either... They make their money from you using their software... With that being said, It's not made of glass ++, It has a 1080p display ++, it has a LTE ++, It has a S800++++++++++++ :) To me, it's a worth while upgrade, but you are still good with the N4...

kpjimmy

I already have LTE,glass never bothered me after I put on the dbrand custom skin, and 1080 with a s800 only matters with spec borders. There's nothing groundbreaking IMO. So to me it feels like an iPhone update lol.

My point is, you don't have to go and get a new Nexus every year... And you shouldn't have to... The N4 is still a great phone... But It also doesn't mean it isn't a good update from the N4... Personally, the glass is the only reason I didn't get the N4, and been painfully dealing with a GS2 Epic for the past two years... I'm getting the N5, and it's well beyond a worth update for me... :)

David Escalante

There is no innovation, it's the same experience I do have with my Nexus 4.

Bariman43

Good for you. For those of us without Nexus 4s, we'll be owning this. Bye.

David Escalante

Well, you still can get the Nexus 4 for a lot less than the 5.

Why pay more for the same experience?

dani smith

great for nexus

how many times you are seating with friends, and your phone stay on the table
face up ringing, and the person next to you look at your phone and see the caller
ID.
this is not something you can
control. your mind makes it automatically,